Martin Chandler - ARTICLES

This post takes a look at the life and works of Gerard Martineau, a writer well known in the 1950s and 60s

Martin was not entirely happy when tasked with reviewing this one, but contrary to his expectations seems to have enjoyed what he read

By no means the first book on the subject of Lord’s that is available, it certainly seems that this pictorial offering is one of the best

Women’s cricket and attitudes towards it have changed a great deal over the years – in this post Martin goes back to 1933 to see how the subject was viewed then

We understand how difficult it is to buy Christmas presents for the true cricket tragic, and for 2019 this one is our best suggestion

Here we have a fascinating monograph on the subject of a little known but still familiar name from the history of Australian fast bowling – Ronald Cardwell and The Cricket Press Pty Ltd really should do this sort of thing more often

Here we review what is, in many ways, the most important cricketing publication of the year

In this post Martin looks at the life and work of AA Thomson, a Yorkshireman from the Cardus school of cricket writing

This one will be a bestseller whatever the critics say, but it seems from Martin’s review that it is a decent read as well

In this review Martin looks at a newly published biography of the man who, amongst a number of achievements in a number of fields, scored the first First Class double century